8/10
Romance and Mystery is afoot in this Cosy mystery...about a ponzi like con.
7 October 2021
Cake tasting, 120 guests, and the big day looming Ro and Nick get embroiled in catching a con artist in "how to con a con" after one of Aida's clients ends up murdered. The con...get trusting clients to give up valuable information like social security numbers and then use the information to falsify documents like titles and borrow against their value.

Another great entry in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery series on Hallmark (one of my three favorite Hallmark series along with Hannah Swensen's Murder she Baked and Mystery 101). Wedding planning for Ro and Nick is intertwined with the Real Murders Club sleuthing to solve this mystery. Cue the murder board, which seems to be a mainstay in these Cody mystery dramas.

"The wedding should be about us, not our guests."-Nick

Philip helps Arthur with some police research, which puts him in the perfect location to hear police updates on the case that he is then able to share with the Real Murders Club. A trust-fund kid who lies about their Dad being alive, alibis that don't check out, and a murdered/dead man paying a bogus loan. Two murders both by strangulation with a cord...and the plot thickens.

I enjoyed the parallel scene with Lynne and the police reading the police report of the murder while the Real Murders Club reads a reporter's article about the crime. Fake name-fake loan. Aida may have the key to the mystery with the loan documents...something that lands Aida in the hospital and helps Aurora figure out what she really wants for her wedding.

"Ro and I have a theory"-Nick "oh! Have pigs begun to fly?"-Lynne

I have enjoyed every entry in this series and this is no exception. The characters are really well developed and the team is really tight. This is still a must see on my list.
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